How to hide that it's Qubes, after boot

The goal is to make it impossible for anyone looking at the monitor to recognize that it’s Qubes OS, after ‘Ctrl + Alt + D’ is pressed (that is the default shortcut for ‘Show Desktop’, to hide all windows.) By default, there is the wallpaper and the panel. I’ve changed the wallpaper, and the Qubes icon at the left of the panel, that what remains became the trays, as far as I know.

The blue cube icon that is ‘Qubes Domains’, the gray USB stick that is ‘Qubes Devices’, the two tray icons of sys-net and sys-whonix and the tray icon of disk are what exist in the panel besides the time and date and the volume, which I think they are not Qubes-specific, or are they? The rest of trays, like Update and Clipboard, are hidden, as I don’t use them anyway.

I need to know how can I change the icons of these trays so that it becomes a very ordinary, e.g. Linux Mint system that does not necessarily mean that it’s a person who cares about security. I would also like if you tell me what icons to change them to (for example to change the blue cube icon to an icon of an app or so that’s very very popular (hence very very ordinary to have, and does not necessarily mean anything.))

I am aware that there’s still ‘Windows buttons’ in the panel, that is if I pressed ‘Ctrl + Alt + D’ to hide Tor Browser and KeePassXC that I was using, their icons do still appear in the panel. There’s the solution of removing the ‘Window Buttons’ item of the panel, that then one can switch or go to a window using ‘Alt + Tab’, but if you can think of other solutions, please tell.

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How long are they looking at your screen for? A passing glance? A few seconds? A few minutes?

I can assure you that Linux Mint takes security very seriously :wink:

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It may be possible by changing your icons for something normal. Or ricing the hell out of your desktop in such a way that it doesn’t look like anything immediately recognizable. In both cases, see:

Another option is to hide the panel itself, either with auto-hide in panel preferences or completely removing all panels and using hotkeys and terminal to do everything.

In any case, keep in mind that even if you can masquerade visually, Qubes is not trying to hide at all. It should be very detectable by the way it uses network and pretty much obvious is case someone has access to filesystem of your qube.

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